The Kallunki's go GREEN!

The end of April, we bought this new car. It's a Chevy Cavalier that runs on CNG (compressed natural gas) as well as on regular fuel. The great thing about CNG is that it is only 63.8 cents per gallon! Matt had been looking into information about CNG and figured with the difference in cost between regular fuel and CNG, we could make the car payment each month! We had a friend who was going to a government auto auction in Maryland to try and get a car and offered to get one for us as well. We got the car, sight unseen, and have loved every minute of it. Austin has even offered to pay to fill it a couple of times because it's almost always under $ 3 to fill (unless it is really empty). With gas here in Utah at about $ 3.88 per gallon today, you can see the incredible cost difference. Matt drove it to Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago and it cost him less than $ 5 to drive from here to St.George!
We're so sold on the idea of CNG that we've been looking for a truck as well.

Matt and I were driving down State Street in Pleasant Grove on Tuesday and saw this one sitting on a lot. It had a big CNG sign in it so we quickly turned around to go look at it.

About three hours later we were parking it in our driveway!

Now we just have to sell our Buick and Suburban...

This is what the sticker looks like on the back of vehicles that run on compressed natural gas. Keep your eyes open...you'll be seeing more of them I'm sure!

The CNG fill-up stations are a little bit few and far between but we are lucky to have one just across the freeway on 8th North, about a mile and a half from our house.

Matt absolutely loves sending his money to the credit union instead of to OPEC!